Summary: | Objective: We aimed in this study that
to describe the sociodemographic and clinical status of the patients with
prediabetes in a tertiarry internal medicine outpatient clinic.Method: Participants in
this study are from Kayseri City Hospital in 2018 between June and December.
This study was restricted to participants who were aged 18-65, had blood
glucose levels in prediabetic range (n=96). Participants' age, gender, marital
status, wage,
education, profession, employment, smoking status, alcohol
use, height, weight, body mass index, insulin
resistance were based on self-report and our measurements.Results: The
half of the patients with prediabetes was IFG (n=50) and the least subgroup was
IGT (n=14) in our study also. Combined group was higher (n=32). 71 of them were
female (74%). 23 patients smoked at any time and mean packet-year was 27.78
(min:1, max: 95, sd: 23.55), 93 patients (96.7%) never used alcohol. 15 patients
were retired and only one of them was caused by disablement. The rate of insulin
resistant patients was 50%. Marital status were single (n=1), married (n=89),
widow/widower (n=5), divorced (n=1). There is a higher rate of obesity in
prediabetic patients in our study. BMI are respectively 1% (≤ 18.5 kg/m2);
9% (18.6-24.9 kg/m2); 18% (25.0-29.9 kg/m2); 68.76%
(≥30 kg/m2).
Conclusion: Prediabetes is an increasingly common disease, leading
to serious morbidities. Most patients are obese and female. Most female
patients of prediabetic patients are housewives. Early diagnosis and
appropriate treatment of people with these characteristics, especially those
with high risk of prediabetes, can prevent the development of diabetes.
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